Photograph of Old Turrell City Hall — Photograph by Jim Roberts, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Turrell City Hall, Old

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Old Turrell City Hall is a historic government building at 160 Eureka Street in Turrell, Arkansas. Built c. 1955, it is a classic example of a Quonset Hut, a form popularized during World War II for military uses.”
Wikipedia article Old Turrell City Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 17 National Register listings published here for Crittenden County · listed in 2007 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 160 Eureka St., Turrell, 72384
When was it listed? September 2007
Category. building
Township. Fogleman township
National Register reference number. 07000962 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

10 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Turrell City Hall, Old between 1993 and 2015, burning about 27 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	1
Arson/incendiarism	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge	ARWPR-FY15-WF-RAILROAD FIRE
6 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge	WAP 1
8 August 1996	Debris and open burning	5.4 acres	Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge	NEW SHOP
23 May 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge	WAP 2
28 April 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	WALKWAY
5 March 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	9.5 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	WAP 1
15 March 1993	Smoking	3.1 acres	Central Arkansas Refuges Complex	WAP 1
5 November 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge	UNIT P-9 WILDFIRE

Every fire recorded in Crittenden County

Storms near this property

11 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Turrell, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1995 and 2025: 9 hail, 1 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1995	Hail	Turrell	$30,000	The town's high school had many of its windows broken by the hail. Numerous cars were damaged with one car totally destroyed.
April 2006	Hail	Turrell	$5,000	no account filed
May 2008	Hail	Turrell	$1,000	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Turrell	$750	no account filed
January 1999	Hail	Turrell	$100	no account filed
April 1998	Hail	Turrell	$10	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Turrell	-	Measured with an anemometer on a rooftop.
March 2016	Flash Flood	Turrell	-	Several roads and streets were closed due over six inches of flood water covering them.
April 2025	Hail	Turrell	-	no account filed
March 2011	Hail	Turrell	-	no account filed
May 2010	Hail	Turrell	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crittenden County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

1 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Highway A-7, Gilmore to Turrell	1.5 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000962 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crittenden County	All 17 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.